Gianfranco S DiSalvo
(***)- ***-**** - Greenvale, NY - **.*******@*******.***
www.linkedin.com/pub/gianfranco-disalvo/20/499/84b/
SUMMARY
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Electrical-Mechanical Engineer professional with fourteen plus years in
project & product engineering, compliance & quality management,
manufacturing, medical, telecom, programming, HMI/PLC/SCADA, utility
design & contracting work, safety certification & testing labs.
Managed engineering team & assembly line technicians to bring in
multi-million dollar bids for an OSHA certified perimeter Defense
Company.
QC Supervisor of a six sigma, lean manufacturing assembly line for
Lucent's CDMA base station; providing weekly progress reports, quality
control evaluations & manufacturing line improvements.
EXPERIENCE
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Electrical Engineer for Private Contractors, Bowne AE&T Group; NJ, NY, CO
08/2003 - Present
. Managed construction projects from client's design meetings to
completion by organizing draftsman, technicians and craftsmen to bring
together bid proposals, specification reports & cost estimate
deliverables.
. Project design, CAD layout, installation, troubleshooting & testing of
single/3 phase equipment of automated PLC controls, SCADA RTUs, HVACs,
electro-mechanical equipment, UPS w/ solar recharge, genset & transfer
switches (600kW), AV systems, solar voltaic (<10KW) & thermal
systems, wind turbine generators (<4KW).
. Work together with city, state and national agencies such as FEMA to
repair, mitigate and identify failure modes of various damages to
client's business infrastructure and equipment.
. Develop project specification documents, schedule of values, drawings,
electrical layouts, conductor and conduit schedules and execute
projects within published time line.
. Troubleshooting, fabrication, construction rework and testing with
oscilloscopes, RF meters, etc. on various telecom, mobile radio
products, solar voltaic & thermal systems and wind generators (<4kW).
Electrical Controls Engineer for SP Scientific; Gardiner & Stone Ridge, NY
03/2011 - 04/2012
. R&D new HMI/PLC/SCADA systems to implement new designs and upgrade
existing automated product lines for a medical manufacturing company
to meet corporate and marketing goals.
. Assisting sales, marketing and purchasing in resolving customer &
vendor issues regarding electrical and control problems, product
performance, documentation, potential applications or use, etc.
. Verify accuracy and completeness of drawings, BOM's, specifications,
manuals and related documentation of medical and lab products and
assigned R&D projects through cross-functional engineering team
efforts.
. Bringing the company's entire line of medical/lab products to current
full compliance/certification in the North & South Americas and
European markets as the Product Compliance Manager.
. Part of a cross functional management panel to evaluate field failures
in delivering root cause analysis reports & corrective action packages
for field repairs; leading to further redesigns of electro-mechanical
equipment selections (BoM), design layouts and wire harness assembly
methods to reduce product field failures.
. Tech report writing on system specification, testing procedures,
potential hazard analysis (RoHS, WEEE), user manuals and performance
results. Project scheduling;
. Troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, program (PLCs, PID tuning), calibrate,
redesign and reliability testing of medical equipment from conception
to launch, while instructing manufacturing and service departments on
existing and new products for improved marketable value-engineering
performance while reducing deliverable costs.
Electrical Engineer for Safeguards Technologies LLC; Hackensack, NJ
12/2008 - 02/2010
. Managed engineering teams, draftsman, and 3rd party vendor proposals
in order to bring together bid portfolios and projects for an ISO 9001
state-of-the-art perimeter security company.
. Supervising personnel from in-house technicians to international union
contractors on field installations, tests and repairs for clients in
the airport, seaport, nuclear power station and prison industries.
. Designing of automated electronic surveillance detection systems from
the data/control center to analytic equipped cameras and lighting,
complete with user and repair manuals specially tailored for each
project.
. Lead calibration department & production tracking reports for ISO9001
internal compliance audits.
. System integration of managed fiber-optic switches; RF data
transmitters; cameras with analytics; laser scanners; infrared & LOS
microwave detectors, acoustical fiber-optic detectors backed up with
UPS & Solar.
. Shepherding manufacturing technicians on assembling equipment back-
panels utilizing detailed diagrams, custom mock-up designs and QC
methods to reduce in-house assembly times and field failures during
installs.
Project Engineer for Intertek Testing Services NA, Inc.; Totowa,
NJ 08/2000 - 07/2003
. Technical report writing on product inspections & lab testing for
accreditation and certification listings under UL, CSA, CE standards
in the Industrial, Lighting, Medical, Gas, Refrigeration, and
Sanitation streams.
. Field testing, inspections and certification work on electronic
equipment's such as airport X-ray baggage screening equipment and
automated credit card embossing & stamping machine.
. Safety, performance, environmental, endurance conditioning,
vibrational stress and EMC/EMI testing using pc software interfaced
equipment for an ISO 9001, Six Sigma Company.
. Developed automated testing procedures and equipment utilizing motors,
valves, PLRs and switch logic devices for repetitive testing and
safety verifications.
. Client consultations regarding products 'under test' for safety &
performance results; Managed calibration, maintenance, and workload
orders involving third-party service vendors & testing labs.
Electrical Intern Roles for RFL Electronics; Boonton, NJ -&- Lucent
Technologies; Mount Olive, NJ
. Supervisor and quality inspector of a Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing
assembly line of CDMA cell base station, surface mount PCB
manufacturing equipment and hot gas wave-solder equipment line.
. Broad testing, calibration & repair of analog/digital telecom
equipment using: schematic diagrams, spectrum analyzer, noise
analyzer, oscilloscopes, RF generators, meters, software based in-
circuit test equipment, soldering / de-soldering equipment, hi-pot.
. Equipment: high voltage telecom interface cards, tone transceiver,
power-line carriers, duplex programmable modems, programmable
telemetry TX/RX, RF amplifiers, digital to optical modems, DC/AC power
supplies.
. Manufacturing line and management meetings providing weekly progress
reports, estimated productivity forecasting, quality control &
production line improvements to meet monthly financial targets.
EDUCATION
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. School: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
. Major: BS in Electrical Engineering, Emphasis on Telecommunications
Technology
PERTINENT SKILLS
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Bilingual (Italian), MS Office, Design Software ( Multisim, PSpice,
AutoCAD, Photoshop, SketchUp8)
Programming Software (Basic, Pascal, Assembly, Ladder Logic, C,
C SCADA, HMI, PLCs.
Hydraulic & Pneumatic system work on tractors and industrial
equipment; Stick / MIG welding exp.
Restoration/Fabrication/Diagnosis & Machining work on aircrafts,
vehicles, medical, robotics, etc.
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